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Kentucky signee Patrick Graffree isn’t even on campus yet and we’ve already learned he’s not great with secrets. Graffree just tweeted that Joker Phillips told all of his soon-to-be senior football players that Kentucky will add a black helmet to the wardrobe to go along with the black uniforms next season. For anyone who was against wearing the black attire last season, the chance of putting it back in the closet for good went out the window when Kentucky snapped Tennessee’s win streak while wearing the alternate garb. Now we just have to embrace it.

Well, the new coach (after this coming season) will get us back to traditional BLUE & WHITE. Hopefully we will get a coach who is mature enough to coach his players and not try to be cool and be ‘like’ one of the players.

No matter what anyone says, the black uniforms did NOT win us the game vs ut.

UK could have 50 different helmets and we’d still be ranked 13 or 14th in recruiting and standings each year in the SEC. Penn St, Bama, USC are always good – haven’t changed uniforms in a collective 300 years…

The fact is, the PLAYERS like black. If black brings in one good player a year….wear black socks, jocks,pants, shirts, helmets, drink black gater aid. I DONT CARE…wear pink and purple….JUST WIN. And THAT takes better players.

Its about the players. Uniform choices raise recruiting profiles, when team tradition and recent successes do not. What did our superstars Trevathan and Guy care about last year the most – the black uniform! Things that motivate the team, regardless of what they are, I say go for it. Besides, the black uniforms looked sharp to me, thouhg I preferred the blue lid with it. Lets get grey ones and whatever else bring in the better players, we should at least be as cool in this arena as Boise State IMO. We should get the fancy one game uniforms, etc., we are a Nike staple in basketball and thus as a program altogether.

#14 that is exactly why no one wants to play at Kentucky. Time and time again it has been pointed out we can’t compete with the rest of the SEC with traditional recruiting. We need something outside the box.

This P Graffree… with the Twitter world giving us an insight to the new players personalities, is by far one of my favorites already. I don’t know if I have ever seen a kid so pumped to be wearing blue. Kids have liked the black unis since the fab 5 wore black socks an black shoes… I personally only care about the win column at the end of the day so they can wear pink if thats what pumps them up. The CATS need something to get recruits excited because heading to the doormat can’t be that great of a selling point every season.

So, you guys want to throw out tradition for one 3 star kid a year? And if you are telling me that an ‘alternative’ uniform will make the UK players step up their game up – then, let’s do it every game next season and see our win total. Hate to burst everyones bubbles, but success on the field has more to do with coaching (and getting good players) – we are going to be underdogs in most every game even WITH black uniforms.

Joker being let go is the easy answer for a lot of fans these days. The same group of fans that probably only enter Commonwealth when the team is doing well, has had a hard time coming up with any real options moving forward. I don’t know if Joker is the man for the job… I don’t think he has had a reasonable amount of time as HC for us to make that determination either. The Joker haters cannot see the big picture very well. If Joker does well we have a coach that will retire here and build a program we have never seen a glimpse of. If Joker does badly we are in the same position regardless. There is not a John Calipari for UK football, point blank period. Love UK football because you love what it is not because you are a bandwagon fan and will only be happy with beating teams that annually compete for the National Title.

No. Black is Wack! Call me old school, but the last time I checked our colors were blue and white. You kiddies who want to make a fashion statement, go root for loserville. I heard their black uniforms are here to stay.

I want to personally thank Joker for making people forget how crappy a coach I was. It may not matter who the NEXT coach is, but everyone (including 4 and 5 star recruits) know UK isn’t going to be good as long as Joker is head coach.

Nike could make UK’s uniforms with invisible thread and paint and Joker would figure out a way to blow it.

Yeah great, lets let a bunch of 18 – 22 year olds tell us how things should be (all black uniforms). That is the same age group that was instrumental in getting Obama elected. And look where that got us.

Is everyone ready for a 3-9 record season (Kent State, WKU, and Samford)? And we almost lost to WKU, so dont take that game for granted. That’s what we should be worried about-not colors. I wouldnt care if we wore pink as long as we are competing. But, we dont have to worry about that, do we? Maybe next year…..

For all you fair-weather UK football fans, read #27, he speaks the truth. Personally, I can’t wait to see the new helmets and I can’t wait for this upcoming season. Joker has all my support and I believe in him. Go Cats!!!

I just love the people that call out “fair weather fans.” I’m 38 and I’ve been going to games since I was a kid. Just because I am smart enough to know Joker was a bad idea and IS a bad idea, doesn’t mean I’m a “fair weather fan.” And, if my son was old enough, I would have to think long and hard about letting him play a UK now. The ONLY reason to attend UK would be because he loves the school – it would have nothing to do with the coach or his hope to make bowl games. We can talk colors of uniforms from now till the end of time – but it will NOT change the fact that Joker is in over his head and we should not be ‘on the job’ training for him. Mitch and Joker have both let this football program down.

#27 and #40–Well, pardon me while I play the grand piano. “Love UK football because you love what it is..” Are you effing serious? Do you KNOW what UK football is? It’s a year-in, year-out debacle: watching our team get drilled by any decent team, listening to excuses, beating little sisters of the blind, and then more excuses and PROMISES that we’ll get better. If you can love that, then you’re a better person than I am. Most people don’t love failure.

If it gets recruits excited, then I’m 100% all for it. I don’t give a rat’s ass if a bunch of fans think it’s dumb or lame. If you have listened to Coach Cal at all during the past 3 years, you would know it’s all about the PLAYERS.